Corporate History

About Hönle: Dr. Hönle AG, head of Hönle Group, is one of the world’s leading suppliers for industrial UV technology. The UV specialist, who is noted on the stock exchange, develops, manufactures and distributes UV systems, UV lamps and UV measurement equipment worldwide. The systems are used in the cross-linking of photo-reactive substances, for surface sterilisation and solar simulation.

Hönle products are used in manufacturing processes in electronics, microelectronics, precision engineering and the optical industry. They are applied in the printing, automotive, aerospace and pharmaceutical sectors.

For years, UV specialist Hönle has been very successful in the curing of inks and coatings. The innovative Hönle UV systems can be integrated easily into particular manufacturing processes where they achieve excellent results.

Since 1994 Hönle is ISO 9001 certified. Our products have the CE marking.

Besides the parent company Dr. Hönle AG (UV units and systems) the Hönle Group consists of the printing specialists Eltosch Grafix (UV and IR/hotair dryers, peripheral equipment for the printing industry, e.g. ink fixation and cooling) as well as the expert for web-offset printing PrintConcept.
Professionals at glass and lamp production are Raesch (custom-made quartz glass components), UV-Technik Speziallampen (lamp manufacturing, e.g. for sterilization) and Aladin (UV lamp manufacturing).

Further group members are the specialist for industrial adhesives Panacol, SKC Panacol and Tangent.

In addition to subsidiaries in China, France, Korea and the USA as well as a sales office in Italy and a sales & service office in Spain the Hönle Group relies on a dense network of sales and service partners worldwide.

2016

Mitronic GmbH merges into Dr. Hönle AG

2015

Two further subsidiaries are added to the company group: SKC Panacol (Korea) and Tangent Industries Inc. (USA-Torrington)